User Services Weekly Report
Date: 11-16-2011
Name: Dan Frostman
Circulation Services – Circ, Reserves, and Stacks
Statistics:
• Amount spent by the local bookstore at the LIS booksale: $78
• Amount spent in previous years: $400+
• Number of lockers available to check out in the library: 0
Highlights: (Progress towards Goals, accomplishments)
Armstrong:
• Busy library
• Lots of ILL
• Added headphones to the collection
• New reservation added to the 161 schedule
• Bindery shipment going out this week
• Carrie out all week
• All-LIS staff meeting
• Lots of student subbing/schedule stuff
Davis Family:
• Student calendar is constantly in flux
• Janine back from Atlanta conference
• Book sale
• SLA stuff
• Reminding students to be careful checking in and shelving
Stacks:
• Moved Laserdiscs and oversize CDs – LD’s came up from Special Collections
• Shifted end of CDs to accommodate backlog from Acq.
• Returns picking up
Reserves:
• Surprising surge in Fall reserve requests – 40 items added Friday
• Researching alternatives to Docutek
• Copyright presentation with Terry in Dec. working on that
• Reserve SLA
• Cleaned up personal copies in Millennium – protocol for purchasing these titles now in place with Acq.
• Added a way to track faculty admins in Docutek
• Winter term questions and requests
Web team: Focus groups this week
Space Team:
CT Team: Decommissioning Segue plan
Challenges:
• Screening failure Saturday
• Mis-shelved reserves
• Self-check broken (again)